Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 3, 2020

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, biochemical systems, biochemists, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolutionary biologists, intelligent design, Michael Behe, molecular level of life, natural selection, Oxford University, religion, summer, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Excerpt: Darwinism and Design

_{Michael Behe
December 3, 2020

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Much of the difficulty here arises in the differing standards that different disciplines have for what constitutes an “explanation.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 2, 2020

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, biological information, Brian Miller, cells, DNA, doctors, engineers, evolutionary biologists, expertise, experts, function, hacking, Information Technology, James Tour, redundancy, Rice University, synthetic organic chemistry, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, Year of the Expert}

Preview: James Tour, Brian Miller on the Origin of “Data Risk Management” in DNA

_{David Klinghoffer
December 2, 2020

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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If computer scientists build systems like that, and life at the DNA level also incorporates them, for the very same reasons, that’s rather suggestive. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, annus horribilis, Brian Miller, cells, Charles Thaxton, Colorado School of Mines, Darwinism, Dean Kenyon, experts, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Marvin Olasky, metabolism, Privileged Species, Psalms, Rice University, Roger Olsen, Science Book of the Year, scientists, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, Texas A&M, textbooks, The Miracle of the Cell, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, virtue-signaling, Walter Bradley, What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology, World Magazine, Year of the Expert}

Life’s Origin — A “Mystery” Made Accessible

_{David Klinghoffer
December 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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If you “listen to the experts,” or anyway some of the experts, cells are “little bags of garbage” and Miller-Urey is a “true simulation of prebiotic chemistry.” Read More ›

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Date
December 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", amino acids, Charles Thaxton, code, codons, Darwinian evolution, DNA, double helix, Escherichia coli, genetic code, information, intelligent design, materialists, mind, natural selection, PNAS, probability, proteins, Roger Olsen, Rutgers University, Second Law of Thermodynamics, serine, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, Walter Bradley}

Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics (Updated)

_{Science and Culture
December 2, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Read More ›

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Date
December 1, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Aristotle, computational biology, Cornelius Hunter, determinism, evidence, free choice, future, ID the Future, illusion, laws of nature, Michael Keas, physicists, Pierre-Simon Laplace, podcast, Sabine Hossenfelder, theoretical physics}

Determinism: “An Irrational Rejection of Evidence”

_{Science and Culture
December 1, 2020

Evolution

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German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder takes even human choices to be merely an illusory experience. Read More ›

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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
December 1, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, cells, Center for Science and Culture, Christmas gifts, Discovery Institute, DNA, elements, Ghost of Cassiopeia, intelligent design, mugs, natural world, nebulae, Periodic Table, poppies, quotations, scientists, water, Zazzle}

Intelligent Design Mugs? We’ve Got Them

_{Amanda Witt
December 1, 2020

Astronomy, Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

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For our biochemistry geeks, one mug contains both the periodic table of elements and a DNA-amino acids codon wheel. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
December 1, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Tagged
, anti-science, biodiversification, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Michigan State University, paleontology, rocks}

Ixnay on the Ambriancay Plosionexhay

_{Paul Nelson
December 1, 2020

Evolution, Geology

2}

Shhh — don’t say it. The geological event, well, not “event,” as in something that happened about 541 million years ago...we don’t talk that way anymore. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 1, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angstroms, atoms, ATP synthase, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, Boston University, Cryo-EM microscopy, electron microscope, Food and Drug Administration, intelligent design, John E. Walker, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Michael Behe, microglia, microscopy, mitochondria, molecular machines, Nature News and Views, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, neuroscience, Nobel Prize, optical coherence tomography, PNAS, ribose operon, rotors, Stanford University}

“Resolution Revolution”: Intelligent Design, Now at the Atomic Level

_{David Coppedge
December 1, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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Breakthroughs in imaging are allowing scientists to see iconic molecular machines in unprecedented detail. This will be a great boon for design science. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, articles, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, critics, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian mechanism, evidence, Finland, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, ID critics, Irreducible Complexity, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe}

Matti Leisola: Michael Behe “Opened My Eyes”

_{David Klinghoffer
November 30, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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To say that a writer "opened your eyes," and to something as profound as the design of life, is a fantastic tribute. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 30, 2020

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, dark energy, dark matter, Lex Fridman, phylogenetics, Ptolemaic system, systematics, UC Berkeley}

“Our 20th- and 21st-Century Ptolemaic Epicycles”?

_{Paul Nelson
November 30, 2020

Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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I am fascinated by the philosophy of science parallels to similar moves in molecular phylogenetics and systematics. Read More ›